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[Stefan Güls <sguels AT gmx.net>]

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From: James Miller <jamtat AT mailsnare.net>
To: <baslinux AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Monday, July 21, 2003 2:38 PM
Subject: Re: [BL] Changing Console geometry?


> On Mon, 21 Jul 2003, Stefan Güls wrote:
> > Newbie question:
> > after gaining some hands-on linux experience with big distros (SuSE) I'm
> > about setting up an old Pentium 100/24MB to fiddle around with Linux...
> >
> > Can anybody give me a quick hint how to change the default (text)-screen
> > geometry from 80x25 to e.g. 80x34 (which looks indeed much more pleasant
on
> > this old S3 graphics card). Generally I'm willing to read f.. manuals,
but
> > this would be easier with a nice console in front of me....
> >
> Are you using Basiclinux and booting it with loadlin?  If so, you could
> just add the phrase "vga=ask" to the end of your loadlin line and get a
> menu each time you boot asking what geometry you'd like to use.  I think
> the same can be done by adding such a line to Lilo, if you use that, but
> where to add it I don't know, since I never tried this with Lilo.  If you
> don't want a menu, but just want a specific set geometry, I gather there's
> a way to do that as well, though I'll have to let someone else indicate
> what it is, since I don't know for sure.
>
> James
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It's as you guessed, I´m running a hd-installation of BasicLinux via
Loadlin.

Hey, and that's easy! Simply pass the desired vga-mode as a parameter to the
kernel, so a simple 'vga=3' at the end of  the loadlin line gets me where I
want ;-).
I was a bit confused with all the Slackware keyboard & console packages, not
expecting that the kernel itself is taking care of that.

This was quick, very well.

Greets,
Stefan